Wenlock Basin

There are private residential moorings[1] at the North end, with their own entrance gate and entryphone on Wharf Road.

[2] The basin was constructed in 1826 and is close to the entrance of the Islington Tunnel, where a tug service operated until the 1930s.

The opening of the basin went badly wrong, with the cofferdam separating it from the Canal collapsing, prematurely filling the basin and leading to the water level of the canal falling by 13 inches.

The development consists of the following buildings: While no longer serving the original cargo handling and warehousing business, a number of modern businesses have office space on Wenlock Basin, either in the ground floor business units of the larger residential developments - or in their own property directly backing on to the basin.

They include the Victoria Miro Gallery, a leading British contemporary art gallery in London run by Victoria Miro, and the British Ecological Society, a learned society in the field of Ecology.